I am Ulf Jonasson and I live - together with my wife Birgitta - in a small Swedish town – Katrineholm in Sörmland. Before we moved to this county we lived many years in Uppsala - where we were studying at the University of Uppsala. I got my Doctor´s degree in Public Health in 2001 at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg.

söndag 28 juni 2015

My story about David and Goliath - Me and Eli Lilly. Will David win again?

A couple of weeks ago I was aware of the fact Eli Lilly – one of the
BigPharma – had banned me - @DrUlfJonasson- in their Twitter account @LillyPad. What could our crime have been?

We have been studying the painkilling substance (Dextro) Propoxyphene (DXP)
since 1993. Eli Lilly synthesized the substance 1953 and the drugs Darvon and
Darvocet came out on the market, first time in 1957. We wrote and defended two doctoraldissertations concerning the fatalities of DXP.

Our research have given great results in the whole world, and our data was
behind thedecision to ban the substance in Sweden, in UK, in
the European Union and finally in USA as well in India. We have estimated the
numbers of fatalities due to DXP in USA and in the whole world.

523 000 persons in the world could have been
poisoned to death due to Propoxyphene during 1985-2011 http://bit.ly/1fKUZFZ

The drug was banned in USA in November 19th
2010 but the trials have not started yet. Hundreds of lawyers have worked in
soon five years to prepare to the trials. It will all cost hundreds of millions dollars.

Eli Lilly is the company – among many, many other companies - that will be most sued. It seems they will do anything to try to stop people that works against them – as lots of people do. I cannot find anything else than Eli Lilly is worried, may be very worried about the coming trials. That could be damages for several hundred million dollars.

And apparently some people in the company
have also tried to stop us.

Here are the tweets we (and one for Eli Lilly) have send concerning
Eli Lilly